Wasn't slavery abolished? Isn't that the point?
Slavery was abolished...after practically every other country in the world had already abolished it, and after the cause of preserving slavery ignited a civil war that almost destroyed the country, and it was "abolished" but then replaced by exploitative economic relationships like sharecropping that were practically identical to slavery, then Jim Crow and redlining, and then the
present.
The native genocide was committed but the european settlers who originally invaded north america?
Those are the same people who founded America and at America's founding it only contained the original 13 colonies, the rest of the country was conquered and its natives exterminated. A big reason for secession, mentioned by the founders many times specifically, was that the British crown would not let them be as ruthlessly expansionist into native territory as they wanted.
I thought the US was founded after the civil war, and the anti-slavery side won it. When they founded their new nation the "founding fathers" wrote a constitution for it that was based on freedom and equality for all. This is a good base for the laws of a nation.
wait...what lol
Indeed the US activities in Iraq is one of the many issues that I would like Americans to think about and consider what their founding fathers would make of this type of behavior.
Again, the founders exterminated much of the native population in the territories they ruled. They enshrined an economy built on African slavery into the Constitution. They fought
expansionist wars for the venal financial interests of the slave owning aristocrats who founded and ruled the country. Why would these people give a shit about Iraq?
But George Washington was not involved in any of these crimes, and IMHO the US constitution remains one of the best documents of it's type in the world.
I think any document that legally enshrines slavery sucks ass.
Yeah that stuff is terrible. Someone should do something about it. Someone should make people think about what is being done in the name of their nation. How would you suggest doing that?
Communist revolution
This thread isn't about Russia or China, but if I was talking about them then you're absolutely right, I would say different things because they are different countries, but I would still have the same intent, which is to get people to think about and be interested in the actions that their country undertakes.
My point is you wouldn't make excuses for their atrocities the way you make excuses for America's.
